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Martin K. Petersen (Oracle)
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Nilesh Javali <njavali@marvell.com> says: Add support for the QLA29xx generation of Marvell QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs (ISP2091/ISP2291/ISP2099/ISP2299). The 29xx family shares much of its architecture with the existing 27xx/28xx adapters but introduces 128-byte request and response ring entries (up from 64 bytes), requiring extended IOCB definitions and updated ring management throughout the driver. The key hardware change is the wider IOCB format: every request and response queue entry is now 128 bytes. This propagates into every code path that builds, submits, or processes IOCBs -- command submission, status completion, marker, CT pass-through, ELS, logio, task management, abort, ABTS, VP control, and NVMe. The series is organised as follows: Patches 01-08: Foundation and flash/firmware infrastructure PCI device ID registration, ISP-flags wiring, flash read/write interface, NVRAM configuration, queue initialisation, FC operational firmware load, removal of a redundant VPD flash read in the sysfs read path, and BSG passthrough (flash block I/O, MPI firmware load/dump). Patches 09-11: 128-byte IOCB infrastructure New qla_fw29.h header with extended structure definitions, status continuation and marker IOCBs, and IO-path updates that select the correct IOCB size via the entry-size helpers. Patches 12-24: Sysfs, mailbox commands, and core enablement Sysfs attribute gating for unsupported 29xx features, mailbox command enablement (get_fw_version, execute_fw, get_adapter_id, init_firmware, get_firmware_state, serdes, ELS, echo_test, data rate), shutdown path, ring-slot helpers, and memory allocation updates. Patches 25-39: Response-path IOCB handling and final wiring Status continuation, status entry, CT pass-through, PUREX, ELS, logio, task management, abort, ABTS, VP control/config/report-ID, LS4 pass-through, and BSG feature gating adjustments. Patches 40-55: bug fixes uncovered during review of the earlier postings -- queue teardown NULL dma_free and bitmap locking, endianness/bitfield cleanups, 64-bit FPM word counters, 64G/128G port speed setting and reporting, an edif NULL deref, Name Server logout detection on FWI2 adapters, VP index bounds, NVMe abort and LS-reject locking, a dport diagnostics info leak, a BSG job leak, and an unbounded FRU image count. Patch 56: bump the driver version to 12.00.00.2607b1. The series applies on top of Linux 7.2-rc1. Thanks, Nilesh [mkp: Resolve merge conflict] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260723050413.3897522-1-njavali@marvell.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen (Oracle) <mkp@kernel.org>
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